Display racks

Abstract

Display rack having pairs of rails on which elongated articles such as rolls of wallpaper can be supported. The rails are inclined to the horizontal and have abutments at their lower ends.

What I claim is: 
     
       1. A display rack for displaying elongated articles, said rack having a front and a back and comprising in combination: a plurality of rolls of wallpaper;   at least two spaced apart side-by-side upright support structures, each support structure having opposite planar surfaces and each having defined in each of said planar surfaces a plurality of spaced apart slots arranged in substantially coplanar relationship with corresponding slots on the other support structure and inclined in a common direction to the horizontal, with the direction of inclination of said slots being such that the upper ends of said slots are positioned at the front of the display rack;   a plurality of elongated rails, each rail having one longitudinal side edge which is engaged in a cooperating slot, said each rail being supported by the engagement of said one longitudinal edge in said cooperating slot, said rails being mounted in vertically spaced disposition in said slots with corresponding rails on adjacent support structures arranged in substantially coplanar relationship with one another to define opposed pairs of spaced apart rails, the rails of each pair inclined in a common direction to the horizontal and each having an upper end and a lower end and having upwardly facing freely exposed support surfaces for supporting opposite end portions of elongated articles thereon, the direction of inclination of the rails being such that the upper ends of the rails are positioned at the front of the rack, said spaced slots on said support structures being spaced apart a distance greater than the combined diameter of several rolls of said plurality of rolls of wallpaper so that a plurality of rolls of wallpaper can be stacked on top of each other on each pair of rails;   an end abutment surface adjacent the lower end of each rail to prevent the articles from rolling off of said rails; and   a side abutment surface alongside each rail for retaining said elongated articles endwise on said support surfaces, thus resulting in a display rack for elongate, cylindrical articles, wherein an article may be removed from the tracks without disturbing or displacing adjacent articles on the tracks.   
     
     
       2. A display rack according to claim 1, wherein all the rails are inclined in a common direction. 
     
     
       3. A display rack according to claim 2, wherein the upright supports comprise a pair of substantially flat, upright, rectangularly shaped walls having confronting surfaces, and said rails comprise elongate strips secured edgewise to the confronting surfaces of the walls and extending substantially the width of the walls and said strips each projecting substantially perpendicularly from the plane of the respective walls. 
     
     
       4. A display rack according to claim 3, wherein additional strips are secured on the opposite surface of each wall in positions corresponding to the positions of the strips on the confronting surfaces of the walls. 
     
     
       5. The rack of claim 1, wherein said each rail is supported solely by the engagement of said one longitudinal edge in said cooperating slot.